Article marketing is one of the easiest ways to get free traffic. Writing an article only takes 10-30 minutes depending on how quickly you can research and type, and article directories make it very easy to get articles to rank well in the search engines.

There are two major benefits to article marketing:
_-_-> You get direct traffic from your resource box
_-_-> You get backlinks that improve your search engine rank

Many people only submit articles for the backlinks, and they neglect to focus on optimizing their articles for maximum traffic to their site. The fact is, you can get a tremendous amount of direct traffic through your articles. Sometimes your articles that you submit to article directories will even outrank your own site.